This is David Sedaris's original collection of arch and hilarious holiday satire, now a perennial (if subversive) favorite, in a compact, hand-sized edition ideal for bringing to your next adult Christmas party, or reading under your desk. Here you will find a critic's erudite shredding of a Christmas pageant ("Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol"), the increasing domestic disaster revealed in a chipper annual newsletter ("Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!"), and the timeless classic "SantaLand Diaries," in which Sedaris wickedly exposes what really goes on among the hired elves and Santas of the holiday shopping season. On second thought, maybe you shouldn't read it under your desk—the helpless giggling will give you away.